Grant access to Battery Power Management on Laptops/Tablet PC's

Introduction

If you find yourself (like I did) trying to ensure shop floor users have the bare minimum of powers on a device such as a Laptop or Tablet PC with XP or XP Tablet edition, you may find they cannot run or modify the makers Battery Management program without being an Administrator or sometimes Power User. This can be a pain if the device dims the screen when undocked making it hard to read.

To get around this, simply grant the user Full Control to the following registry key:

The American scientist Paul Ehrlich once said, "To err is human, but to really foul things up you need a computer." At risk of hyperbole, it is my humble opinion that a greater truth has never been uttered.